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Grand Jury Report, Suffolk County Supreme Court, Special Grand Jury, Term 1D, May 6, 2002, foreperson Rosanne Bonventre, dated January 17, 2003

Released February 10, 2003

This web page provides the full text of the Suffolk County Grand Jury report in the PDF file released by the court. We also offer smaller PDFs of each section, including the sections on each accused priest. The priests were referenced by letter in the report, but if they were identified in the media, we provide the names below.

See also our table of accused Rockville Centre priests with links to articles, and Newsday's summary of the allegations in the report. For the investigative context of this report, see the other reports by grand juries and attorneys general. The Ferns Report from Ireland was modeled to some degree on the Suffolk County report.


Full Report (in a single 1.1 megabyte PDF file)

Title Page and Preliminary Statement

Findings of Fact (a 1 megabyte file)

  I Introduction
  II

Pastors, Priests and their Parishes: Priests as Perpetrators; A Diocesan Breach of Trust

 
Priest A
Identified in the media as
Rev. Joseph Mundy
Priest_B
Identified in the media as
Rev. Matthew Fitzgerald
Priest C
Identified in the media as
Rev. Brian McKeon
Priest D
Identified in the media as
Rev. Eugene C. Vollmer
Priest E
Identified in the media as
Rev. James Bergin
Priest F
Identified in the media as
Msgr. Alan Placa
Priest G
Priest H
Identified in the media as
Rev. Angelo J. Ditta
 
Priest I
Identified in the media as
Rev. Gerard J. Chasse
 
Priest J
Identified in the media as
Rev. Nicholas Unterstein
Priest K
Priest L
Priest M
Identified in the media as
Rev. Robert Huneke
Priest N
Priest O
Identified in the media as
Msgr. Charles "Bud” Ribaudo
Priest P
Identified in the media as
Rev. Michael A. Carroll
Priest Q
Priest R


  III Child Sexual Abuse Syndrome
  IV The Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse
  V Diocesan Policy and Practice: The Church's Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse
  A. Introduction including:
   
 
Priest T
Identified in the media as
Msgr. Alfred M. Soave
   
  B. The Diocesan Office of Legal Affairs
  C. The Uninsured Perils Fund
  D. The Office for Priest Health Services
  E. Diocesan Sexual Abuse Policy: Post 1992 including:
   
 
 
Priest S
 
Priest U
Priest V
Identified in the media as
Rev. Andrew L. Millar
Priest W
Identified in the media as
Rev. Michael R. Hands

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